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Some analysts believe that President Joe Biden is hurting Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign because he is angry about being forced to drop out of the re-election run.
Biden has only endorsed Harris but has not appeared at many campaign events, often overshadowing her with his own appearances. Biden and Harris’ teams are said to be at odds with each other as Harris tries to balance her loyalty to him with her campaign goals.
Many people who disagree with Biden have said that his actions show that he is angry about how he was treated during the election process, the New York Post noted.
“Biden is intentionally enacting revenge on Kamala for knifing him in the back,” Republican political strategist Jason Meister said.
“He never liked her. The happiest he’s looked in four years was when he put a red [Trump 2024] hat on after speaking with Shanksville, [Pa.] firefighters [last month] on 9/11. He should just come out and endorse Trump.”
“It would be absolutely ridiculous to assume that he has no resentment over how he was treated or how, frankly, he was forced out in what some would describe as a coup,” Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said.
“Why hasn’t he appeared in places where he could do some good, like parts of Pennsylvania and states that the president has buoyed during his term? Nobody wants to give up being president of the United States – it’s the one job you don’t want to leave,” Sheinkopf added.
“Somewhere deep down inside, in a place that he doesn’t want to admit, I think maybe Joe Biden is actually rooting for it,” former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said. “I think it’s clear that Joe is still bruised by what happened.”
“I don’t think he would have won [a second term], but in his views, and those of his family, they probably think that they were robbed of it,” Ramaswamy added.
“Harris doesn’t need help sabotaging her campaign because she does that herself every time she speaks without a teleprompter, [but] it’s important to remember there is absolutely no daylight between President Biden and Kamala Harris on policy,” Trump campaign spokesperson Caroline Sunshine said.
“Kamala Harris has said herself she wouldn’t do a single thing differently these last four years, and our campaign will be reminding voters of this fact every day between now and Nov. 5,” Sunshine added.
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White House officials maintain that Biden supports Harris and “believes in their shared agenda.”
People “seem to have missed” that the President “made clear he was all-in for” Harris “out of the gate when he left the campaign, and has consistently fought for her and praised her leadership to the country,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
“He believes fiercely in an agenda that will move us into the future, away from unhinged divisiveness and extreme policies the country can’t afford to go back to, like MAGAnomics and a national abortion ban,” Bates added.
A brand new poll shows that former President Donald Trump is ahead of Harris in five of the seven crucial swing states, which will be crucial in deciding who wins the election.
According to an AtlasIntel survey of likely voters in battleground states, Trump leads in Pennsylvania (51 percent to 48.1) and Michigan (50.6 percent to 47.2).
The former president is also in a “narrow” lead in the states that are in doubt: Arizona (49.8 percent to 48.6), Georgia (49.6 percent to 49), and Wisconsin (49.7 percent to 48.2).
In Nevada (50.5 percent to 47.7) and North Carolina (50.5 percent to 48.1), Harris is ahead.
538 voters chose AtlasIntel as the most reliable polling organization for the 2020 presidential contest. If the Republican takes the five battleground states that he presently leads in their polling, with Harris at 248 Electoral College votes, Trump would win the 2024 election with 290 Electoral College votes.
Reacting to the poll results, a Trump spokesperson told Newsweek: “Americans are sick and tired of Kamala Harris and her failed policies that have led to skyrocketing inflation, an out-of-control border- and rampant crime that terrorizes communities. She is weak, failed, and dangerously liberal, and the American people know a fraud when they see one.”
According to the AtlasIntel poll, Trump would prevail in two of Harris’s most important “blue wall” battleground states.
Another prominent election prediction model has shifted to “lean” toward Trump after weeks of indicating that the race was a “toss-up.”
The change results from a series of new polling data suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris’s national lead has diminished or vanished entirely.
Additionally, multiple swing states now show the former president holding a narrow lead in most of the battlegrounds that will ultimately determine the outcome of the next election.
